Bring back the same Honor Wards every year or even better make it an immediate reward.
I don't play much LoL, I'm trying to get a job, I play an MMO and overall the meta balancing has caused the shittiest meta for like the past season where every jungler is unworthy of the tiitle jungler, a jungler implies that their place is in the jungle, but in reality under the current meta, Junglers are Gankers, it's not the jungler role, it's the Ganker role, a glorified support whose main job is getting everyone else ahead, gone are the days of Shyvana denying enemy camps or anyone shutting down Yi before he gets to that ridiculous point where he one shots you.
Anyways because of the fact that I haven't play much in season 7 I was only honor level 3 and had to play near a hundred (Maybe even a full hundred) over the past week in order to try and get the level 4 honor ward (Obviously being purple it is the most desirable ward) I played so much LoL, so late some days that I go a headache 2 days ago and I still played a few games even with the headache. Then yesterday I played the entire day, every game getting lots of honors, focusing entirely on trying to be a supportive and helpful team mate so I could more honor. After all that, I failed to get it, I honestly wonder if I'm even close. So now I'm unable to play, not having the thing I desire feels pretty bad but I know if I play I'll see lots of others with it and it'll just make it feel worse, as if the game wasn't unenjoyable enough as is, it's far worse, I never wanna see an ally sweep wards, I don't want allies wards on the map, I don't wanna see enemies placing wards, because it's all a reminder of a thing that I can now never have, I didn't enjoy the gank meta enough and I my body wasn't resistant enough to illnenss and I couldn't do it and I'm doomed to never had the thing I want but if I play I will be forced to see others enjoying it.
I always hated stuff like this, I mean if I'm this miserable imagine how a player must feel if they joined in season 8. Literally never having the chance to earn the ward, having to see all these people with such a nice ward while he stucks with some garbage like a Draven face or a weapon ward. I've always felt bad using my Season 3 silver Ward, knowing anyone who see's it can't get it for themselves, not because they're not good enough to make silver but because it's S3 players only. I thought Riot was adding less of this garbage when they brought back all these skins like URF Warwick, Championship skins and all that, but now there is more exclusive shit being added.
So I quit, it's a real shame too because although new runes are overall worse than old ones due to less mana regen, MS, CDR and overall options, they make MF feel a lot better than what was previously possible. I will continue to watch the happenings in hopes that the exclusive honor ward becomes available to me again some day and I can finally enjoy LoL again, but honestly it never should have been a thing in the first place.